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Away Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice…
- In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate…
- Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of…
- Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
- The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
- Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about…
- Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than…
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
- Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
- I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are…
- Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might…
- For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.
- Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of…
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
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- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius